EPISODE
Bobby Kennedy for President - Season 1
This four-part documentary series weaves together rare and exclusive footage of attorney general, U.S. senator, and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy in the 1960s.
June 6, 1939 in Bennetsville, South Carolina, USA
1 March 1927, New York City, New York, USA
June, 1950 in Mazatan, Sonora, Mexico
24 June 1935, Brooklyn, New York, USA
May 02, 2018
Despite the jagged edges and a tone bordering on the hagiographic, Bobby Kennedy for President offers a succinct look at a process which seems rare if not critically endangered in American politics.
November 24, 2018
Regardless of your opinions of the Kennedys, this documentary series offers a revealing look at a painful period in our nation's history.
April 30, 2018
The crucial difference makes Bobby Kennedy for President feel necessary, especially for those who either don't remember the era or weren't alive when it all happened.
May 02, 2018
Honest, revealing doc shows many sides of political legend.
April 27, 2018
Bobby Kennedy for President is no simplistic hagiography.
July 27, 2018
Porter knows how to use her materials for maximum emotional impact. If so much of what we see feels new, it may be because the footage is so intimate-it doesn't communicate news, but personalities, relationships and atmosphere.
April 30, 2018
Bobby Kennedy for President, over its four-hour running time, uses its subject as a kind of microcosm for American politics itself.
May 09, 2018
Its 1960s clips of riots in the streets and police brutality against people of color, some of the footage looks long ago, while some of it looks all too contemporary.
April 25, 2018
Exhaustive, admiring, comprehensive and richly documented, Bobby Kennedy for President nevertheless doesn't feel especially revelatory.
December 14, 2018
Despite the fact "Bobby Kennedy For President" fails to paint a full portrait of Bobby... the series is a moving and frightening look at the cost of division and the price that an entire country pays for it.
April 30, 2018
Bobby Kennedy for President isn't meant to chastise anyone who dropped the ball so much as it illustrates how the following generations of Americans could develop into the citizens we are today.
October 10, 2018
To give the size and scope of RFK's life the justice it deserves, the series is a focused and fluid.